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... Direct broadcasting beams television signals into homes globally, delivering images that bring unprecedented awareness of events occurring throughout the world. Military global positioning satellites provide ubiquitous signals that support a stunning variety of services, from assisting in the navigation of civilian airplanes, shipping, and automobiles to transmitting timing signals that enable cell phone and power grid switching.
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... space activities other than to provide a context in which more tactical decisions might be made. The national priorities that informed the committee's thinking include ensuring national security, providing clean and affordable energy, protecting the environment now and for future generations, educating an engaged citizenry and a capable workforce for the 21st century, sustaining global economic competitiveness, and working internationally to build a safer, more sustainable world.
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... civil space program with strengths and capabilities aligned for tackling widely acknowledged national challenges -- environmental, economic, and strategic -- is a national imperative today, and will continue to grow in importance in the future. GOALS FOR THE CIVIL SPACE PROGRAM Structured and supported to match multiple responsibilities in serving key national objectives, the U.S.
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... Human spaceflight continues to challenge technology, utilize unique human capabilities, bring global prestige, and excite the public's imagination. Space provides almost limitless opportunities for extending the human experience to new frontiers.
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... The issues include a loss of focus on national imperatives, overly constrained resources, inadequate coordination across the federal government, missed opportunities to transition roles from government-led to private-sector-provided services, obstacles to international cooperation, weakened institutional partnerships, and lack of emphasis on advanced technology development programs. Awareness of such issues -- and not an effort to resolve specific instances -- guided the committee in its development of recommendations to NASA, NOAA, and the federal government at the highest levels.
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... , and commercial space programs. The resulting program should a.
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... soft power leadership by inviting emerging economic powers to join with us in human spaceflight adventures. National space policy too often has been implemented in a stovepipe fashion that makes it difficult to recognize connections between space activities and pressing national challenges.
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... The President of the United States should task senior executive-branch officials to align agency and department strategies; identify gaps or shortfalls in policy coverage, policy implementation, and resource allocation; and identify new opportunities for space-based endeavors that will help to address the goals of both the U.S. civil and national security space programs.


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